Socialism
It is the lower form of communism and communism is the higher form of socialism. Socialism is when the means of production are collectively owned by society, which leads to communism, the end goal of socialism – …
Politics
Kangaroo Court
A judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory …
Police State
a state in which a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by …
Totalitarianism
refers to an authoritarian political system or state that regulates and controls nearly every aspect of the public and private sectors. Totalitarian regimes establish complete …
Trotskyite
Trotskyism is an extreme left-wing political ideology which originated in the split in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s between supporters …
Machiavellianism
“[T]he employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct”. The word comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, born in …
Collectivism
A partisan dogma in which the commitment to a definite ideal and the condemnation of all others are equally necessary. Collectivism is, in fact, a …
State Secrets Privilege
In Totten v. United States, 92 U.S. 105 (1876), the U.S. Supreme Court held that public policy forbids enforcing a secret espionage agreement between a …
Democracy
A rule of the majority. Derived from two Greek words (1) demos, meaning ‘people’, and (2) kratein, meaning ‘rule’. This may sound much better than …
Sycophant
an apple-polisher, [butt]-kisser, bootlicker, brownnoser, camp follower, doormat, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groveler, kowtower, lackey, minion, pawn, puppet, sheep, stooge, toady, underling, “yes man” – Roget’s …